July 2011
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cancer
can a nurse tell you that you could have cancerous cell after an abnormal pap test?
Hi and thank you for the question.
This seems like a very simple question, but like most medical/nursing things, it really isn’t. Typically cancerous cells are identified by a pathology lab. Your sample is sent off, read by the lab, the lab writes a report and sends it back to the physician who sent it in,...